Arikun

Arikun is a name associated with Indigenous communities of the central Taiwanese plains. Their villages formed part of a broad region of lowland settlements between the mountains and the west coast, linked to neighbouring communities by kinship and exchange. Before the nineteenth century some Arikun people joined other plains communities in moving into the Pǔlǐ basin, at the invitation of Indigenous people already living there. They established new settlements in the basin as conditions in their earlier homelands changed.